By Tracy Walden – Thrive Mortgage, NMLS #1048123 and member of CCAR’s REALTOR®/Lender Committee FHA ISSUES NEW CONDOMINIUM APPROVAL RULE Comprehensive policy revisions include ability to approve individual units in non-approved condo [...]
This article was originally published June 2019 in North DFW Real Producers Magazine The only source of light at 4:30 a.m. on March 26 was the Coit Road streetlights and the Collin County Association of Realtors (CCAR) headquarters. While the [...]
Alphabet Soup: Differences between MUD, SUD, PUD, PID and What it means to you to sell inside one On July 16, 2019 MuniCap experts Lindsay Banner and Joshua Arendt discussed special Tax Districts and how they impact homeowners at CCAR’s [...]
We get it. Thursdays in October are for football. Even for the football adverse (🙋♀️), attending a Legislative Session Review rarely tops the list of desired Thursday evening activities. That is why we created an easy quiz to evaluate if [...]
The Collin County Association of Realtors (CCAR) reports that as interest rates continued to drop in August 2019, homes sales continues to rise—creating a good news/bad news situation for buyers. The bad news: Limited inventory for buyers. [...]
The CCAR Pulse, which delves into the real estate markets of 37 local communities, continues to show a healthy housing market with increased profitability and stabilizing inventory. However, Collin County’s localization of increased [...]
By Dawn Ferreiro – Supreme Lending, NMLS #514152 and member of CCAR REALTOR®/Lender Committee TREC made several changes to the 1-4 Residential Single Family Contract in November of 2018. This article specifically addresses changes made to [...]
Warning: Data breaches can (and will) happen to you. However, there are steps you can take to reduce your risk of being hacked. “The last thing agents want to do is notify their buyers and sellers that they were victims of a data breach. [...]
By Diane Donley, Republic Title North Coit, Member of CCAR’s Affiliate Committee FIRPTA (The Foreign Investment In Real Property Tax Act of 1980) is a tax law that may impose a tax on certain defined “foreign persons” selling [...]